Re: [Evolution] UI Suggestions

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

This is a bad idea.  MS Exchange does nothing like this, instead they have
their own protocol that does everything.

They don't store messages on the IMAP server like you suggested.

Evolution can store all it's data remotely, but by using standard protocols
like LDAP, iCal, and IMAP.

Jeff

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Jason Haar wrote:
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:04:32 +1200
> To: evolution helixcode com
> From: Jason Haar <Jason Haar trimble co nz>
> Sender: evolution-admin helixcode com
> Subject: [Evolution] UI Suggestions
>
> I was wondering if you've thought about making Evolution capable of
> running
> as a pure server-based app? By that I mean the option of making an IMAP
> server responsible for Calendar and Contacts as well as mail.
>
> As there are no standards in this area, you could work on the principle
> that
> an IMAP folder named "Calendar" contains one calendar appointment per
> mail
> message contained within. Same for Contacts. You could make each of these
> messages an XML object containing all the appropriate stuff - or maybe
> iCal
> and vCard objects instead (to use existing "standards"). Then when
> evolution
> starts up, it could just read each item in Calendars, and generate it's
> calendar from that, with recursive appointments and everything. The nice
> thing about this would be that if these folders were in public shared
> IMAP
> folders, then users could share Calendars and Contacts lists, etc. With
> the
> above idea, it would also give you some data transparency because at
> least a
> dumb IMAP client could still access Calendar entries as mail messages. M$
> Exchange half-assed does this already, each contact/calander entry is a
> separate message, but the IMAP interface botches the objects so that you
> can't get to the data :-(. 
>
> Sounds doable/a good/crazy idea?
>
> -- 
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
>
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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